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Doctoral students’ living through the university environment and experiencing the space around them is significantly important in determining how they respond to the academic environment and how the environment shapes their spatial experiences. The present study examines doctoral students’ experiences of lived space and how these experiences shaped their living, studying and responding to the university environment. A phenomenological approach was employed to explore doctoral students’ lived space experience. Fourteen student participants were selected through purposive sampling, and they were interviewed with open-ended questions. The data from transcripts were analyzed by using the line-by-line coding approach for identifying the students’ words and phrases that assigned meaning to their lived experiences.Working in the office, experimenting in the laboratory, and experiencing research culture were emergent study themes. It was found that most of the students experienced their workplace as ‘motivating’, ‘secure’, ‘energetic’ and ‘productive’ and they exhibited more understanding, mutual support and friendly relations with their colleagues. Nonetheless, intensive experimental work kept them restricted and reduced their mobility. The study has implications in understanding doctoral students’ study experiences while living through the spatiality of the university.

Dr. Syed Abdul Waheed, Dr. Nadia Gilani. (2021) A Phenomenological Study on Understanding Doctoral Students’ Spatial Experiences in the Universities, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-06, Issue-1.
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